Threefold Homage Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 By permission of the Special Collections Library, Duke University Threefold Homage Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1868 corrected fair copy 1 page DGR Duke University Library Rossetti Writings XXIII. Threefold Homage white unlined 8 1/2 x 7 in. The paper is a half sheet. Commentary
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unprinted Paull Baum's pencil notation at the foot of the manuscript. Threefold Homage Was I most born to paint your sovereign face, Or most to sing it, or most to love it, dear? Full sweet the hope that unborn eye & ear Through me might/could may guess the secret of your grace. Yet [?] neath song & picture must I trace/ Yet fain neath/in song or/ or picture would I trace/ I trace Ah! yet this speech/ One/ These words: Ah, gazers, listeners thinks not here Alas! Yet ah! neath song & every picture truth might I trace And note beside each song: “Let none think here To breathe indeed this beauty's rapturous atmosphere, To apprehend this body or soul's embrace!” Faint shadow of you at best I weave; except That innermost image all unseen, which still Proves me at heart your beauty's crowned adept And Yet was this nought, our transport to fulfill our hope's high dowered day to fill,— That near o'er us, while we kissed, with answering thrill, Two Muses held Love's hands, & smiled, & wept?